[petsc-dev] improvement to ./configure

[Matthew Knepley]

Pushed something. Let me know if this is what you had in mind.

  Matt

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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>  Matt,
>
>   Thanks!
>
>    Barry
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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>  I can try to put something in.
>>
>>  Matt
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>  Matt,
>>
>>  It would be nice when some user types --xxxx-yyyyyy_zzzz and they meant
>> --xxxx-yyyyyy-zzzz it would give them a nice error message. This is made
>> difficult by the fact that superlu_dist name as an underscore in it. Are
>> there other special cases?
>>
>>  Could we have BuildSystem barf with helpful error message whenever
>> someone puts an _ instead of - except when allowed like superlu_dist?
>>
>>  We semi-regularly waste time with petsc-maint messages of people who
>> cannot distinguish _ from -
>>
>>   Barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
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>


-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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